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Special Correspondent inThe Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth1866

On the way to his new position, Abraham Lincoln (like Barack Obama, 138 years later) took a train ride from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. Ahead of the man from Illinois was a seemingly impossible job. A greatly divided country was inching closer to civil war.